Corn-husking machine.



No; 67!.653. Patented Apr. 9,190l.

|-: r. OBENCHAIN.

CORN HUSKING MACHINE.

(Ap t fildFb 11 1901) (No Model.)

Withesses:

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ELDER F. OBENCHAIN, OF LOGANSPORT, INDIANA.

CORN-HUSKI'NG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 671,653, dated April 9, 1901.

Application filed February 11, 1901. erial No. 46,838. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELDER F. OBENCHAIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Logansport, Cass county, Indiana, (post-office address Logansport, Cass county, Indiana,)

have inventedlcertain new and useful Imend of the shredder part of the machine, 2

the shredding-cylinder, 3 the concave, and 4 the feed-table extension, the parts thus far referred to being of the usual construction and arrangement; 5, the feed-table, disposed, as usual, forward of the shredding-cylinder; 6,

the snapping-rolls, disposed across the machine between the shredding-cylinder and the rear edge of the feed-table, the joint between the rolls being at about the level of the feedtable, there being four of these rolls arranged in two pairs, each pair consisting of one roll disposed above another, and the two pairs being disposed angularly across the machine, with their inner ends contiguous and farther toward the shredding-cylinder than the outer ends, the rolls being preferably tapering, their larger ends being inward; 7, openings .formed at the rear edge of the feed-table just (Not shown.) The angular arrangement of the snapping-rolls causes the splitting of the bunches of stalks and aided by their conical form causes them to spread sidewise and become distributed with fair uniformity across the width of the machine, instead of going centrally through the snapping-rolls and cansing them to open too wide and pass the ears through and permit the stalks to be received in centrally-massed condition to the cylinder and concave. The snapping-rolls may be smooth or they may, if desired, be corrugated or ribbed, as is sometimes customary'in the snapping-rolls of corn-husking machines.

I claim as my invention 1. In a corn-husking machine, the combi nation, substantially as set forth, of a cylinder and concave, two pairs of snapping-rolls arranged across the machine in front of the cylinder and concave at an angle with their inner ends contiguous and nearer the cylinder than their outer ends, and a feed-table disposed in front of the snappingrolls and having its advanced edge substantially parallel with said angularly-arranged snappingrolls and at some distance from said rolls.

2. In a corn-husking machine, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a cylinder and concave, two pairs of tapering snapping-rolls arranged across the machine in 'front of the cylinder and concave at an angle ELDER E. OBENGI-IAIN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. A. SMITH, FRED G. SIX. 

